The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-06-18
Maryland Affairs.

Maryland Affairs.
Annapolis is to have free postal delivery
after July 1st
Mrs. Sarah Evans died in Baltimore on
Monday, aged 81 years.
The number of deaths in Baltimore last
week was 1873 and births l07.
The new hotel at Emory Grove Camp
ground, just completed cost $4,000.
Baltimore harbor is being dredged, $50, 900
having been appropriated for the work.
Joseph Wagner, of Libertytown, Frederick
county, has been granted pension by the
Pension Bureau.
Shipments of coal from the Cumberland
region show immense increase over last year g
output,
Penmar was opened on Thursday, and the
first regular excursion train OF the season was
run up from Baltimore.
Receivers have been appointed for Geo. W.
Hoover, proprietor of the City Hotel, Fred
| erick, upon application of creditors.
The school commissioners of Cecil County
| ask for S3R,Q0Q for next year. This sum
would require levy CT about % cents on the
500, pretty steep assessment,
On Saturday afternoon Edward Spencer,
John AeSsersmith, Edward J. Glover, VIM.
Southcomb and Cocar Mortty escaped from
the House of Refuge by scaling the back wall.
The Independent Fire Company and the
Frederick Riaemen have arranged 10 go to
Martinsburg, w. Va, on July 4, and partici-
pate in the big parade TO come oiP at that
place.
There we're two small fires in Baltimore on
Monday night, one involving loss of $4,000
and the other 5000. The first was on North
street. near franklin and the second was in
the same block.
The tax rate for county purposes in Garrett
county for this year has been fixed at SLIT
on the 500. The county is under Republi-
can rale. In Allegany the rate is 81 which
is Republican county also.
Suit has been entered in the Baltimore
county circuit court against Hon. Hart b.
Holten for $4,000 on promissory Hote, by
Jacob Tome, of Cecil county. Both parties
to the suit are candidates for Governor on
Republican tickets.
Mrs. Maulsby, wife of Mr.. VIM. P. Maus.
by, Jr., and Miss Ella Pigman, of Baltimore,
yeEs thrown from a carriage last Monday
evening while riding in Mt. Olivet Cemetery,
Frederick, and sustained painful but not
serious injuries. After the accident their
horse ran away, and his harness and the We
hicle were badly damaged.
The closing exercises of Johns Hopkins
University at Baltimore took place on Tues
day. The university now has 81 professors
and 37S students, while in 1877 the profess
prs numbered 20 and the students 1856. OF
the st4d ents now enrolled 10 are from Canada,
from Japas and one each from England
Germany, Italy and Chi3a.
A bunch of bananas, in which vas live
tarantula. was received by Mr.. Edward
Koontz, merchant of Frederick, on Tuesday.
The tarantula caused some excitement until
securely bottled, after the bunch had been
thrown into tub Of water. The sting Of the
tarantula is fatal, and waiter at Chicago
hotel recently died by being stung by one that
was concealed in bunch of bananas.
Chas. Palmer, Philip Paine, Haywood
Floyd and John Doyle, the four oolored men
who were arrested last week as ring leaders
among the laborers who struck for higher
wages ON the farm of Mr.. Louis McMurray,
and by alleged violence forced other employees
to quit work, were given hearing before
Justice Besant at the courthouse Monday
evening, and held to bail in the sum of $50
each for the action of the grand jury.
Il seems to be generally conceded that the
fruit crop ia Frederick county, particularly
apples, pears, cherries, &c., will be almost an
have not failed to yield largely for from tween
ty to thirty years, hardly as many bushels, 1t
is thought, will be gathered. From the wheat
crop also not more than from a-half to three
quarters of an ordinary yield is expected. 1t
has suffered severely from a number of caus-
es, not the less among which is the injury now
beiag done by the fly.
John P. r. Polk, the manager of the PEN
Ursula Peach Growers Bureau, says the yield
of peaches will be less thal bali crop, not
over three million baskets, while the capacity
of the psach orchards now in bearing on the
peninsula Is eight million baskets. Full crops
are expected from the orchards in those sec
tons bordering on the Chesapeake and its
tributaries, and from the country about Smyr-
ma and Milford, Del. Total failures are not
anticipated in any areas of large extent. The
only glut feared this season is when the Old
Mixons are put on the market.
The sanity of Constable VIM. E. r. Coving
ton of Wicomico is being inquired into. The |
cause of the affection is said to be love affair
For some time previous to her marriage Gov
ington had been attached to a young lady in |
Tyaskin, but last December widower sup
planted him and married her. After an I'M
happy married life of four months, they sep
arated, and Covington resumed his attentions |
and marriage was in contemplation, but |
Wnen tOlQ tney cOulu MOI WaFry until sne oD- 1
tanned legal divorce from Der husband,
which could not possibly be secured within !
less time than three years, Covington became
depressed, grew melancholy, and finally in
sane. He declares that be is nov dying.
Covington is % years old. physically very
strong. and apparently healthy man. The |
young lady's mind is also reported to be de-
ranged.
Under an order issued by Adjutant- Gener-
Il Howard, the seven independent companies
Of the State militia will be formed into two
battalions. The three Eastern Shore compa-
nies-Kent Guards. of Chestertown, Talbot
County Guards, of Easton, and Lloyd Guards,
Of Cambridge, and the Groome Guards (late
Co. f., First Regiment) are consolidated into
he Third Battalion. The Leonardtown Rifles
FIST. Mary county, Howard Rifles, of Chas.,
Prince Georges Rifles, of Upper Marlboro,
md Calvert Light Infantry, OF Prince Fred
.riek, are to be known respectively as COM
,anies A, B. c, d, of the Fourth Battalion.
General Stewart Brown, command
ng the brigade, will order an election, at
which he will preside, for major to command
zach battalion. The assignment of the
iroome Guards to the third battalion, to
make up the complement, reduces Col.
Douglass First Regiment to nine companies.